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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Red Rain of Kerala

Some extraordinary lab work on the Red Rain phenomena that is
completely reproducible. It is time to wake up.

First, we need to deliberately sample rainfall in selected locates
and to discover anomalies. Knowing that they are possibly there is a
good start. Several other comparables are mentioned.

Secondly, the replication experiment is mind bending and needs to be
intensified. Right now we are missing DNA. Why? maybe we are not.

The material may have come from space or it may have come from Earth
or it may also have been resident in the stratosphere where I have
already suggested we may discover balloon like slime molds.

Thinking we may have already found it if it were resident in the
stratosphere is needlessly optimistic and a thunderhead is the type
of disturbance to drain material out of that environ or close enough
anyway.

Right now we do not even know what we do not know because we have not
seriously searched the upper atmosphere thinking we had no need to do
so.

At the moment it appears we are looking at a life form that different
from earth life but looks like life. We have waited long enough on this to resolve it clearly and claims of local algae are merely convenient when you have samples to test.

From July 25
through September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the
southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours occurred in which
the rain was coloured red, staining clothes with an appearance
similar to that of blood. Yellow, green, and black rain was also
reported. Colored rain had been reported in Kerala in as early as
1896 and several times since then.

It was
initially announced that the rains were coloured by fallout from a
hypothetical meteor burst, but a study commissioned by the Government
of India found that the rains had been coloured by airborne spores
from a locally prolific terrestrial alga. Other explanations were
proposed but not until early 2006 did the colored rains of Kerala
gain widespread attention in the popular media. A controversial
conjecture that the colored particles were extraterrestrial cells was
proposed by Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar of the Mahatma Gandhi
University in Kottayam.

For years,
claims circulated that red rain which fell in India in 2001,
contained cells unlike any found on Earth. Newer evidence that
these cells can reproduce was published by MIT in the Technology
Review.

While this is certainly not a mainstream idea in
science, a growing body of evidence suggests that it should be
carefully studied rather than casually disregarded.

For example,
various bugs have been shown to survive for months or even years in
the harsh conditions of space. And one of the more interesting but
lesser known facts about the Mars meteorite that some scientists
believe holds evidence of life on Mars, is that its interior never
rose above 50 degrees centigrade, despite being blasted from the
Martian surface by an meteor impact and surviving a fiery a descent
through Earth's thick atmosphere.

If there is
life up there, this evidence suggests that it could survive the trip
to Earth.

All that seems
well established. Now for the really controversial stuff.

In
2001, numerous people observed red rain falling over Kerala in the
southern tip of India during a two month period. One of them was
Godfrey Louis, a physicist at nearby Cochin University ofScience and
Technology. Intrigued by this phenomena, Louis collected numerous
samples of red rain, determined to find out what was causing the
contamination, perhaps sand or dust from some distant desert.

Under
a microscope, however, he found no evidence of sand or dust. Instead,
the rain water was filled with red cells that look remarkably like
conventional bugs on Earth. What was strange was that Louis found no
evidence of DNA in these cells which would rule out most kinds of
known biological cells (red blood cells are one possibility but ought
to be destroyed quickly by rain water).

Louis
published his results in the peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and
Space in 2006, along with the tentative suggestion that the cells
could be extraterrestrial, perhaps from a comet that had
disintegrated in the upper atmosphere and then seeded clouds as the
cells floated down to Earth. In fact, Louis says there were reports
in the region of a sonic boom-type noise at the time, which could
have been caused by the disintegration of an object in the upper
atmosphere.

Since then,
Louis has continued to study the cells with an international team
including Chandra Wickramasinghe from the University of Cardiff in
the UK and one of the leading proponents of the panspermia theory,
which he developed in the latter half of the 20th century with the
remarkable physicist Fred Hoyle.

Louis,
Wickramasinghe and others published some extraordinary claims about
these red cells. They say that the cells clearly reproduce at a
temperature of 121 degrees C. "Under these conditions daughter
cells appear within the original mother cells and the number of cells
in the samples increases with length of exposure to 121 degrees C,"
they say. By contrast, the cells are inert at room temperature.

That makes
them highly unusual, to say the least. The spores of some
extremophiles can survive these kinds of temperatures and then
reproduce at lower temperatures but nothing behaves like this at
these temperatures, as far as we know.

This is an extraordinary claim that will need to be
independently verified before it will be more broadly accepted.

And
of course, this behaviour does not suggest an extraterrestrial origin
for these cells, by any means.

However, Wickramasinghe and
company can't resist hinting at such an exotic explanation.
They've examined the way these fluoresce when bombarded with light
and say it is remarkably similar to various unexplained emission
spectra seen in various parts of the galaxy. One such place is the
Red Rectangle, a cloud of dust and gas around a young star
in the Monocerous constellation.

It would be fair to say that
more evidence will be required before Kerala's red rain can be
satisfactorily explained. In the meantime, it looks a
fascinating mystery.

Wickramasinghe
and Hoyle have also used their data to argue in favor of intelligent
design, and propose that the first life on Earth began in space,
spreading through the universe via Panspermia, and that
evolution on earth is influenced by a steady influx of viruses
arriving via comets.

In their 2010
paper they concluded:

"Once
again the Universe gives the appearance of being biologically
constructed, and on this occasion on a truly vast scale. Once again
those who consider such thoughts to be too outlandish to be taken
seriously will continue to do so. While we ourselves shall continue
to take the view that those who believe they can match the
complexities of the Universe by simple experiments in their
laboratories will continue to be disappointed."

NOTE: The 'Red
Rain of Southern India' anomaly remains amystery. The living cells in
the rain had strange properties and some considered it
extraterrestrial. Conventional wisdom suggests that it was nothing
more than a type of red algae...though it could not be proven either
way. Panspermia is the idea that life exists throughout the universe
in comets, asteroids and interstellar dust clouds and that
life of Earth was seeded from one or more of these sources.
Panspermia holds that we are all extraterrestrials. The Panspermia
Theoryis valid in my opinion but I'm not sure it comes into play in
this case...Lon

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